Shidosha
Matching people to the mentor they actually need
A mentorship platform where the match is the product, not the directory.

- Client
- Shidosha
- Industry
- Education / marketplace
- Year
- 2024
- Region
- —
01/The challenge
Mentorship platforms tend to be directories with a search box. The burden of working out who is genuinely relevant falls on the person who, by definition, doesn't yet know enough to judge.
02/The solution
We built matching that reasons over goals, stage and domain rather than keyword overlap, then wrapped it in scheduling, session notes and progress tracking so the relationship has somewhere to live after the first call.
03/The results
Mentees reach a productive first session faster, and repeat-session rates hold well above what a directory model produces.
- Goal-based
- Matching model
- Built-in
- Scheduling and notes
- Tracked
- Session outcomes
Built with
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- Vercel
They treated it like their own product. The matching logic is the reason the platform works at all.


